BLOG POST: An Event to celebrate ‘The Testaments’ launch
This was a truly memorable event for us and also for those who attended. Two indie bookshops were chosen by her publishers, Vintage (with input from Margaret Atwood herself) to launch The Testaments in the UK. We were chosen on
BLOG POST: What is this ‘Under Wraps’?!
It all started with 'Jolaokaflod'! This is an Icelandic term, translating to 'Christmas book flood' and is used to describe books that are gifted on Christmas Eve. At Red Lion Books we gift-wrapped a book wehoped our customers would love
BLOG POST: Limericks
As booksellers who love real books printed on paper the advent of e-books has not been a welcome development. And the Kindle in particular as it binds users into a certain dominant online retailer. Here’s a couple of anti-Kindle limericks
BLOG POST: Books Made Of Paper
A paper book is a wondrous thingNo batteries are neededYou can shelve it for a hundred yearsThen take it down and read it. You can read it in the bath tubYou can read it on the trainYou can read it when
BLOG POST: Out of This World
Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Swift.What have these writers got in common?One answer is that they are all writers of science fiction…..yet none would feature in most lists of science fiction writers and in bookshops and